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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The issue isn’t MCPS. Its society. This is the first generation being raised with phones and iPads as easy entertainment. Kids don’t learn to manage themselves, think for themselves, be creative, etc. Their parents are millennials who were raised in structured activities, trophy for everything, and now don’t have some essential parenting skills like setting boundaries.

The public education system isn’t designed to be a service industry that so many people treat it as. Too many people (federal, state, local, individual) have very different ideas of how it should operate, which pulls it in too many directions. Yes there are plenty of problems, but it’s not something that MCPS alone can fix.[/quote]

Stop giving MCPS an out for its dysfunction:

- Cycling through 3 different superintendents in the past 2 years is very much a uniquely MCPS problem
- The Beidleman Scandal is definitely an MCPS problem and issue, not a national one
- The EV Bus contract mismanagement was also an MCPS problem, not a national one
- The Woodward/Northwood construction fiasco is also MCPS

Even if we want to give MCPS a pass for the trends associated with teacher/principal burnout and increases in student misbehavior, there is massive corruption, instability and leadership failures within the school system that exacerbate those issues. MCPS IS the problem.[/quote]

Clearly you don’t want to have a nuance discussion.  Laying all the problems at the feet of MCPS is wrong.  No one gave MCPS a pass, they noted that many of the things that people talk about as MCPS decline are happening nationally and like all school districts MCPS is trying to manage as best as possible.

And the cycling through Superintendents is my opinion is a product of folks in this area not accepting the above and expecting fixes/progress overnight.  Not to mention expecting that some (heck many) people aren’t going to be angered/offended when change comes a calling.[/quote]

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